Department of Education

College Scorecard API

The College Scorecard API provides programmatic access to postsecondary institution and field-of-study data published by the U.S. Department of Education. The API exposes more than 6,000 schools and over 1,900 data points per institution drawn from IPEDS, the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS), and U.S. Department of the Treasury sources, including cost, completion, earnings, debt, and demographic outcomes. Requests require an api.data.gov API key passed via the api_key query parameter.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/

Other Resources

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API

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api/

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Data

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/

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GitHub

https://github.com/RTICWDT/college-scorecard

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Signup

https://api.data.gov/signup/

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APIsJSON

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: department-of-education:college-scorecard-api
name: College Scorecard API
description: The College Scorecard API provides programmatic access to postsecondary institution and field-of-study
  data published by the U.S. Department of Education. The API exposes more than 6,000 schools and over
  1,900 data points per institution drawn from IPEDS, the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS), and
  U.S. Department of the Treasury sources, including cost, completion, earnings, debt, and demographic
  outcomes. Requests require an api.data.gov API key passed via the api_key query parameter.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
baseURL: https://api.data.gov/ed/collegescorecard/v1
tags:
- College Scorecard
- Earnings
- Higher Education
- Postsecondary
- Schools
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/
- type: API
  url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api/
- type: Data
  url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/RTICWDT/college-scorecard
- type: Signup
  url: https://api.data.gov/signup/
contact:
- FN: College Scorecard
  email: scorecarddata@rti.org
  url: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/